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David Britton
22 August 2017

Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 22 Aug 2017

Cloud and server Article

Hello Ubuntu Server! The purpose of this communication is to provide a status update and highlights for any interesting subjects from the Ubuntu Server Team. If you would like to reach the server team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-server channel on Freenode. Alternatively, you can sign up and use the Ubuntu Server Team ...


Canonical
22 August 2017

SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators

Canonical announcements News

Redefining the economics of data center networking through disaggregation of hardware, operating system, and software components. SnapRoute and Canonical announced today an integrated network stack, creating a rock solid software foundation for white-box and brite-box switch deployments in large environments. FlexSwitch from SnapRoute is ...


Anthony Dillon
22 August 2017

Cookie notification component

Ubuntu Notes

We’ve all seen the annoying cookie notification which website owners are legally obliged to include on their sites. We can’t avoid them, so let’s have some fun with them. Previously, for Canonical’s sites, the cookie notification was a shared CSS file and JavaScript file that we injected into the head of each site. This resulted in ...


Robie Basak
21 August 2017

Git Ubuntu: More on the imported repositories

Desktop Article

This is the third post in our series on our git workflow tooling in Ubuntu. There is an index of all our planned posts in the first post. As mentioned there, it is important to keep in mind that the tooling and implementation are still highly experimental. Nish introduced our imported repositories using the git ubuntu clone wrapper, as we ...


Stéphane Graber
21 August 2017

LXD: Weekly status #11

Cloud and server Article

Introduction This week has been pretty busy, with the most time consuming work being: More preparation for the upcoming LXC 2.1 release (getting very close now). Dealing with a massive (500+) backlog of patches for the LXC 1.0 and 2.0 stable branches. Quite a bit of refactoring in LXD around the daemon struct and database ...


Adam Stokes
19 August 2017

conjure-up dev summary: aws native integration, vsphere <3, and ADDONS

Cloud and server Article

This cycle is aimed at bringing you closer to your cloud provider of choice, advanced configuration options, and to Just Do More with addons. ...


Canonical
18 August 2017

MAAS Development Summary – August 21, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Hello MAASters! This is the development summary for the past couple of weeks:MAAS 2.3 (current development release)The team is preparing and testing the next official release, MAAS 2.3 alpha2. It is currently undergoing a heavy round of testing and will be announced separately the beginning of the upcoming week. In the past three weeks, t ...


Canonical
17 August 2017

Security Team Weekly Summary: August 17, 2017

Cloud and server Article

The Security Team weekly reports are intended to be very short summaries of the Security Team’s weekly activities. If you would like to reach the Security Team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-hardened channel on FreeNode. Alternatively, you can mail the Ubuntu Hardened mailing list at: ubuntu-hardened@lists.ubuntu.com During the last week ...


Marco Ceppi
17 August 2017

How to set up Kubernetes with conjure-up and monitor apps with Weave

Cloud and server Article

On August 2, Luke Marsden (Weaveworks) and Marco Ceppi (Canonical) presented a webinar on how to Speed up your software development lifecycle with Kubernetes. In the session they described how you can use conjure-up and Weave Cloud to set up, manage and monitor an app in Kubernetes. In this tutorial we’re going to show you ...


Canonical
16 August 2017

Ubuntu Foundations Development Summary – August 16, 2017

Ubuntu Article

This newsletter is to provide a status update from the Ubuntu Foundations Team. There will also be highlights provided for any interesting subjects the team may be working on. If you would like to reach the Foundations team, you can find us at the #ubuntu-devel channel on freenode. Highlights Updated cloud images have been released ...


Femma
16 August 2017

Kernel Team Summary- August 16, 2017

Cloud and server Article

Development (Artful / 17.10) We intend to target a 4.13 kernel for the Ubuntu 17.10 release. The artful kernel is now based on Linux 4.11. The Ubuntu 17.10 Kernel Freeze is Thurs Oct 5, 2017. The kernel in the artful-proposed pocket of the Ubuntu archive has been updated to v4.12.7 The kernel in the Artful ...